Archive for February, 2009

24th February 2009
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Official Google Blog: Current Gmail Outage

Official Google Blog: Current Gmail outage
A few issues today with GMail which we ourselves use as I’ve described in a previous post.
First became aware that this issue was wider than anticipated through Twitter.
Hopefully it’ll be sorted soon.
Oh hum!

24th February 2009
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We’re Taking Our Bat and Ball Home!

A little while ago we were lucky enough to win a new contract from one of our competitors. The management and improvement of a website for a high profile firm of Yorkshire solicitors.
What this project involved was migrating the client’s existing website from their current developer’s hosting, building in some new features (such as a [...]

19th February 2009
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Spyware and Malware – What REALLY is the threat?

In response to my request for ‘Guest Bloggers’ early this week, I’m pleased to announce this blog’s first guest blogger post from Simon Rochester of the IT consultancy Rochester & Associates who has written a useful article on the woes of Spyware and Malware that will be of benefit to any business owner.
Simon writes…
In the [...]

17th February 2009
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Guest Blogging and an Invitation to Blog

I love writing posts for this blog, but as any blogger will tell you: generating new, original and readable posts on a regular basis that people actually look at is hard work!

So I need some assistance and am turning to my fellow blog readers, businesses associates and networkers for help.
Whether you maintain your own [...]

15th February 2009
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Have you ever Googled Yourself?

The name of the search engine Google™ is one of the few brands in the world that has worked its way into the English language as a common usage term.
What I’m talking about is the verb “to google” which means to search for information using a search engine, not necessarily Google: and as such [...]

11th February 2009
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Venturefest Yorkshire: Was it Worth the Petrol?

Venturefest Yorkshire is “an expo of Yorkshire’s most inspiring science, technology and knowledge entrepreneurs” which is held at the Knavesmire Stand at York Racecourse in the UK.

The City of York is about a 40 minute drive from my office and today was 2009’s Yorkshire Venturefest expo. However was it worth the petrol, the £1.50 per [...]

10th February 2009
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Social Media Marketing: The Future of Marketing?

Today I’ve been to a half day seminar at a local hotel organised by Business Link, the UK government’s business support quango which was to my delight, free!
This fact, the subject matter and its proximity to our office, was a major motivating factor for me to attend.
By the way, as a side note: the hotel [...]

9th February 2009
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Firefox Add-Ons

My web browser of choice is Firefox, which I’ve now used for the past couple of years in preference to the common or garden Internet Explorer web browser that lurks on your average Microsoft PC.
One of the cool things about Firefox that makes it a great browser to use is the ability to enhance its [...]

6th February 2009
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Why Use Blogging as an Online Marketing Tool

If there’s one Internet marketing technique that is on every website owners lips, it’s ‘blogging’. But why should you bother?
Blogging is a concept that started in late 90s. It used to be a way to comment on an existing webpage, an opportunity for visitors and readers to react or voice out one’s opinion on the [...]

4th February 2009
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A Fair Days Pay for a Fair Days Work

Before you read further you should note that this post is a ‘rant’ about an issue that we’ve experienced in our business.
I want to get it off my chest so read this post as you find it, nothing more and nothing less.
Consider yourself warned. Here goes…
Some months ago we got an enquiry from a [...]